Saturday, October 17, 2009

Well it seems like I jumped the gun on quite a few things in my last post. It turns out the book wasn't quite as ready to be released as I thought, and its only just this week showed up on the shelves of book stores in Canada. I don't know about the States, but I can only assume that if its made it out on to the book shelves here it will be available to readers in the US as well. For those of you in the overseas market I can't be sure when and if it will be on your shelves, but I do know that you can order it through Amazon sites the world over. Now is probably a good time for Europeans to buy it as well as the American dollar is really in the toilet so you shouldn't have to pay too much for it.

The other date that I had wrong was the date of the book signing - that should have been November 14th 2009 at the Indigo Books in Kingston Ontario, 259 Princess Street, from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm for those keeping track of this sort of thing. They now have forty copies of the book in stock so unless we get a huge run on it prior to the signing or during that should be plenty for everyone. If by some miracle we sell out, I'll figure out a way of having rain checks for those who are there on the day but don't get a signed copy. Maybe have you leave your name and address and then when your copies come in I'll have Indigo set them aside for me to sign for you.

Anyway that's it, and now that you have a chance to get your hands on the book let me hear what you have to say about my predictions. I see that two people have already taken part in the poll were running as to who will become the third dragon rider - anybody else going to take a guess?

Just Who The Heck Is Richard Marcus Anyway?

Aside from being the author of What Will Happen In Eragon lV? I'm a book and music critic with the popular culture site Blogcritics.org, the editor of Epic India Magazine, a South East Asian arts and culture site. My work has also appeared in the German edition of Rolling Stone Magazine and on a regular basis at Qantara.de a German based web site that publishes in English, German, Turkish, and Arabic.
As for the rest of the information, I'm closer to fifty than forty, I'm married to a wonderful artist and musician - she took the photo of me that will be somewhere on this site and designed the tattoos you might be able to make on my forearms in said picture. We've been living together for thirteen years now and have been married for six of them. We live in the small strange town of Kingston Ontario Canada with four cats.